You could try booting with noacpi. noapic worked for me with a nforce chipset recently.

From Pita's description I assumed he cannot even get the CD to boot (Boot failed) - hence my comments, because that is what he told us. Now if it actually does boot but he gets some sort of boot error or it stops somewhere along the way then that is something else altogether different, and yes, in that case, using kernel parameters for the boot sequence may help.

So Pita - give us more info, what actually happens when you attempt to boot that CD?

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OK, so the CD is starting to boot but still not even getting to the uncompressing the Linux kernel stage. That is strange. Has anyone else had that problem with VL5.8-LIVE? I guess the only thing to try are some boot options, press F2 (or whatever to try some of the kernel options) such as noacpi or noapic...

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"As people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers". Robert G. Ingersoll

OK, so the CD is starting to boot but still not even getting to the uncompressing the Linux kernel stage. That is strange. Has anyone else had that problem with VL5.8-LIVE? I guess the only thing to try are some boot options, press F2 (or whatever to try some of the kernel options) such as noacpi or noapic...

I have had that error before. Unfortunately Pita, mine was solved by burning another disc I suppose it's possible (however unlikely) that you've managed to burn two coasters of the same iso. I can't seem to find too much other info, but if I recall, it's akin to a cyclic redundancy check error.

I'd normally say it may also be indicative of possible hardware failure, but the fact that you can boot the other two indicates that's not the case.

Perhaps it's the computer's way of saying it wants a USB-based Vector, no?

I have had that error before. Unfortunately Pita, mine was solved by burning another disc I suppose it's possible (however unlikely) that you've managed to burn two coasters of the same iso. I can't seem to find too much other info, but if I recall, it's akin to a cyclic redundancy check error.

I'd normally say it may also be indicative of possible hardware failure, but the fact that you can boot the other two indicates that's not the case.

Perhaps it's the computer's way of saying it wants a USB-based Vector, no?

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Thanks! You were right it was a deffective CD. The reason I did not consider it was the fact that I was able to burn Slax onto it after erasing VL-Live and could boot. Most likely since Slax is small it did not reach the bad spot.

Well I am now here in VL-Live. What a great job! Except as expected from a slack clone it loaded the module tulip instead of dmfe which is needed for a Davicom eth card I have. No problem for me I am alrady expert on that. Fedora 4 before and now DSL get that part right.